Why are all the people in my chat group rumored to be from the outside world?

Talulah, who had just taken the camera, looked at the photos in it and slowly smiled, "Well... then I won't be polite."

Book 1: Chapter 89 This Fire Keeper Is Something's Wrong

Lorian's feelings were somewhat complicated.

He dragged his elderly father, who was fast asleep, slowly toward the fire-prevention woman who was waiting quietly with her eyes closed.

Her platinum-gold hair cascaded down like silk, and the girl clasped her hands in front of her, her posture dignified and devout.

Reaching the other person, Lorian spoke with a somewhat complicated tone: "Will you come with me to the Firelink Shrine now?"

The girl gently shook her head, her voice soft yet firm: "Not enough. I am not yet qualified to stand before that hero." She lowered her head slightly, as if in repentance or making a wish, "I need more experience... Only then can I offer him my humble help."

The girl's words prompted Lorian to speak up: "Even in my opinion, you could be considered the most outstanding Fire Keeper of all time...."

Actually, rather than Fire Keeper, Lorian would say that she could be considered the most outstanding... priest in history!

In other words, believers who possess the power of miracles and the power of faith.

After leaving Irithyll, Lorian made his first trip to the White Faith.

As he approached the location of the White Sect, he saw flames rising there. Without even thinking, he was certain that something had happened to the White Sect!

He quickened his pace toward the White Sect. When he arrived at the battlefield, a slender figure was firmly fixed in his sight. She had the same platinum blonde hair, the same closed eyes, and an almost holy smile on her face. However, her pale and delicate cheeks were splattered with bright red blood.

At that moment, one of her hands was holding an intruder up by the neck like a doll...

The girl from his memory overlapped with the girl in front of him, and Lorian felt a strange sense of unreality.

The girl shook her head gently again, clasped her hands together in front of her chest, her posture as perfect as a nun in a pilgrimage mural: "The most outstanding firekeeper of all time? Your Highness flatters me. Perhaps... this is just the starting point that must be achieved under the guidance of the gods."

"To truly help that lord, to share his burdens, to protect his flame... is not enough, far from enough. I need deeper cultivation, more experience, to forge my soul and beliefs to perfection. Only then will I be qualified... to stand beside him, to stand shoulder to shoulder with him..." Her voice gradually lowered, as if she were lost in some kind of longing.

"Save...this world..."

This fire-prevention woman... there's something at least nine-tenths off about her!

Her piety was too pure, her humility almost deliberate, and her obsession revealed a hint of unsettling fanaticism.

Lorian recalled the information he had gleaned from others about the Fire Keeper standing before him.

The other party was not a fire keeper selected through the normal process of the White Sect. One day, she suddenly came to the White Sect's location, claimed that she wanted to become a fire keeper, and then began her arduous training.

As Lorian pondered...

“Then, Your Highness Lorian, I will open the entrance to the Firelink Shrine for you.”

"……sorry to bother you."

As the girl lit the campfire, Lorian and his father, enveloped in the flames, slowly disappeared from the spot.

Now only the girl remained at the scene. She silently walked in one direction, and a smile gradually appeared on her previously calm face.

"Lord Ember... I will be by your side soon."

-

A chill ran down Yu Jin's spine.

"What's going on? Why do I suddenly feel a chill down my back?"

Yu Jin thought to himself, puzzled. With his current physical strength, he shouldn't feel too cold even if he went to a place like Antarctica.

"What's wrong?" Talulah asked, puzzled, noticing Ember's strange expression.

"...I hope everything is alright."

Just then, a warm arm, carrying the lingering aroma of hot pot, casually wrapped its arm around his shoulder.

"Tsk, if you ask me!" Nian's enthusiastic voice rang in my ears.

"That meal just now wasn't strong enough! Next time! Next time I'll treat you and get you something really exciting!"

Looking at Nian, who was beaming with excitement, Yu Jin pushed the other's hand away with a hint of disgust.

"I still prefer sweets, thank you."

"Tsk!" Nian's face fell.

"What's the point of sweetness? Life is all about being spicy and pungent to be truly flavorful!"

“Hehehe,” Yu Jin chuckled softly, unmoved.

"You can have the really exciting stuff. By the way, why aren't you with your older brother? Why are you traveling with us instead?"

Yu Jin glanced at Nian, who was grinning beside him. The meal had ended in a subtle atmosphere. Afterwards, the Doctor and Chong Yue wanted to have some private conversation, so they left. Kevin, who also wanted to have a private conversation with Chong Yue, followed them.

Yu Jin knew without a doubt that Kevin wanted to learn boxing.

With his hands on his hips, he said, "My older brother and your two friends must have a lot to talk about. If I just stay there, I'll be bored to death. When I'm bored, I'll definitely have to find something to have fun, and when I do find something to have fun..."

She shrugged, making a helpless gesture. "My older brother's nagging is so annoying, it's enough to make your ears calloused!"

"You're quite self-aware," Yu Jin said, raising an eyebrow.

“No,” Nian grinned, revealing his sharp canine teeth, “that’s called being experienced and used to it.”

Seeing the speechless expressions on Ember and Talulah's faces, Nian let out a hearty laugh.

"Haha, alright, alright, I won't be a third wheel anymore. I'm leaving now."

He waved and turned to walk in another direction, quickly disappearing into the crowd.

“Miss Nian, she… really…” Talulah stared in the direction where she disappeared, struggling to find the right words.

"Unconventional." Yu Jin gave a precise assessment, a slight smile playing on his lips. "No need to try and cover for her, alright..."

He looked at Talulah. "Don't you have work this afternoon? It's almost time, I'll take you home."

"Time flies, it's already noon in the blink of an eye, I have to go to work." Talulah sighed slightly, her shoulders slumped almost imperceptibly, and her usually heroic face was now unusually wrinkled, like a cat that was overwhelmed by work and had no will to live.

"Pfft..." Yu Jin couldn't help but burst out laughing when he saw her like this.

"Why does our leader of the Reunion Movement, the future great revolutionary, have such an expression?"

Talulah turned her gaze away listlessly: "Sigh, that guy once said that work can make people depressed, and I feel like my ambitions are starting to fade away."

"Hahaha."

"Hey! What are you laughing at?"

Yu Jin coughed lightly, his expression serious: "I don't need to work."

"........."

Talulah's eyes instantly turned dangerous, "Ember—!"

Her voice rose a octave, "You're absolutely provoking me, aren't you? Absolutely! While others are mired in the mire of work, you're still showing off your leisure! Unforgivable!"

Before she could finish speaking, her body acted before her reason could!

Suddenly, she lunged forward and clung tightly to Yu Jin's broad back!

"You despicable bastard who doesn't work! How dare you laugh at me for being in dire straits! Today I'll make you feel the anger of a worker!"

"Haha, sorry, sorry, but the thought of you having to work while I don't makes me want to laugh."

"You still said that!"

Just as the two were playfully fighting...

"Tallulah?"

A somewhat incredulous voice suddenly rang out, a voice that sounded familiar to Talulah.

Talulah, who was on Yu Jin's back, froze on her smile. She turned her head stiffly and looked in the direction of the voice.

On the roadside, Chen, dressed in a smart uniform, stood frozen in place as if he had been frozen in place.

Her usually calm and sharp eyes were now wide open, staring intently at the scene before her—her sister Talulah, whom she remembered as always composed, resilient, and burdened with heavy responsibilities, was hanging unceremoniously on another man's back...

"Little... Chen."

When Talulah saw her sister suddenly appear, she felt like the sky had fallen!

The perfect older sister image I've maintained these past few days!

“Um… Chen, let me explain.” Talulah reached out to Chen, trying to salvage her image.

However, Chen couldn't listen anymore; at that moment, she had only one thought in her mind.

I don't want my sister to be taken away!

Volume 1: Chapter 90 Love Song: An Accidental Encounter with a Powerful Woman as Strong as a Monster, Invincible

Talulah was conflicted. Had her perfect older sister image been exposed, or had it not?

It seems we've been exposed, right?

But if it were exposed, why would Xiao Chen react like this?

Talulah looked at Chen, who was stuck between her and the embers, and thought to herself with confusion.

Ember, on the other hand, felt something was off.

"Why is Chen Huijie looking at me like that? It's like I stole something from her. We've only just met... Could it be..."

Ember glanced to the side at Talulah, who was wondering if her appearance had been exposed.

"This guy... is he a sister-complex guy?"

The thought of this made Yu Jin's lips curl up involuntarily. That guy with the serious face in the game's story was actually a sister-complex. But Yu Jin quickly realized something and his smile subsided.

"I almost forgot, this is unofficial history. There's nothing wrong with her liking her sister, but why is she looking at me like that? I didn't do anything."

Yu Jin thought to himself, bewildered.

And the last person, after seeing the change in Ember's expression...

What are you laughing at?

I asked you what you were laughing at.

Chen, with a sour face, blatantly observed Yu Jin beside him.

He's both smiling and not smiling, what's so great about this guy? How did my older sister get so close to him? And she's smiling so happily, she never smiles this happily when she's with me!

Thinking of this, Chen's resentment intensified. Just as she was about to ask a few classic questions—"What's your name? Where do you work? How much do you earn a month? Do you have a car? Do you own a house?"—Talulah, who was standing nearby, finally snapped out of her daze and said, "By the way, Chen, what are you doing here?"

Chen's face was full of displeasure, but when he turned to look at Talulah, he smiled and said, "I'm on patrol. Have you forgotten my job, Talulah?"

Talulah returned the smile: "Of course I remember. But... I remember your schedule for today was supposed to be a day off? Wasn't the patrol scheduled for tomorrow?"

"It was originally scheduled for tomorrow, but the officer on duty today had a problem, and since I happened to have time today, I'll fill in for him and patrol here," Chen replied to Talulah while thinking to himself.

"Luckily, I went out on patrol today, otherwise I would still be in the dark!"

Thinking of this, Chen turned to look at Yu Jin with a smile on his lips, but his expression had already turned into one of "I'm going to grab your mother!"

Ember: "...Still a two-faced person."

Fortunately, all good things must come to an end, and the three of them finally arrived at the end of their journey.

"I'll leave you here. I won't go in." Standing in front of Building 1, Yu Jin stopped and smiled at Talulah, despite Chen's grumpy gaze.

Talulah took two steps forward, turned around on the steps at the building entrance, and waved to her younger sister and Ember: "I'm going in to work now. See you later, Chen and Ember!"

Just as Talulah turned around and took her first step onto the stairs—

The smile on Chen's face vanished instantly, and he reached out and grabbed Yu Jin's clothes with such force that Yu Jin suspected his clothes were about to cry out in pain!

However, as if suddenly remembering something, Talulah abruptly turned around before her foot even touched the ground, a smile still lingering on her face: "Oh, right, Ember, I forgot to tell you..."

The words stopped abruptly.

What Talulah was seeing: her younger sister, Chen Huijie, was currently patting Yu Jin's collar...?